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Coastal Marine Zones [mzddmmyy]
Offshore Marine Zones [ozddmmyy]
High Seas Marine Zones [hzddmmyy]


Overview of Coastal, Offshore and High Seas Marine Zones
Detailed view of the Marine Zones and access to forecasts.
Detailed view of the Offshore Zones and access to forecasts.

Description Valid Date Available Version(s) Size (bytes) #Records MD5Sum Documentation
Coastal Marine Zones
Including the Great Lakes
3 April 2012 Download Compressed Shapefile mz03ap12.zip 22,649,704 458 5b18e000c6f7b9ccb2a6c40971396896 Change History Metadata
7 June 2012 Download Compressed Shapefile mz07jn12.zip 22,663,607 458 877868afd924a3fd09d1ab3ceed1e2cf
2 October 2012 Download Compressed Shapefile mz02oc12.zip 22,691,065 457 4e56dcb1bd5247d90e410c144cdd6f40
Offshore Marine Zones 3 April 2012 Download Compressed Shapefile oz03ap12.zip 446,346 56 c8a8f51dfa5750cd781f4763ea84acd7 Change History Metadata
High Seas Zones 30 March 2009 Download Compressed Shapefile hz30mr09.zip 103,258 7 Change History Metadata

File Specifications:

Naming Convention: mz ddmmyy .shp/.shx/.dbf - where .shp, .shx, .dbf are the extensions of the 3 component files of the shapefile and .prj is the projection file.
Shapefile Type: polygon
Source: NWSI 10-302

Attributes:

field name type width,dec description
ID character 6 Marine Zone Identifier
WFO character 3 Assigned WFO (Office Identifier)
NAME character 250 Name of Marine Zone
LON numeric 10,5 Longitude of Centroid [decimal degrees]
LAT numeric 9,5 Latitude of Centroid [decimal degrees]

Comments: Due to increased lead time for implementation of offical changes, the current version and the new version of the shapefiles will not be available on this page.



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